2.)Lots of clueless old codgers that vote for DIMS just because Mom & Dad & Grandpa & Grandma did are croaking fom old age.(Elderly relative active in rural DIM politics is constantly complaining that their county turned Republican because all the Democrats are passing away)
3.) More of the rural Democrats(who really are fairly conservative) from the outstate areas are figuring out that the Democrats in Mpls. and St. Paul only want their votes ,But treat them like a turd in the punchbowl the rest of the time.
4.) Large numbers of hunters figured out that Gun Control was really about CONTROL and not about crime reduction.
5.)The Internet , Talk Radio,Satelite& Cable TV have broken the Monopoly that the LAME STREAM SNOOZE MEDIA had.(We only had 1 clear tv channel and 2 fuzzy ones while growing up in rural minnesota)
6.)People like me that keep informed about what the DIMS are up to and expose their dishonesty constantly to the younger generations.(Makes for some lively Holidays when the Old DIMS and younger Repubs do some verbal sparing over a card game of Whist.Many times we find out that they don't have a clue about what's really going on and are just parroting what the Local DIM leader regurgitated at the local Cafe.)